Word: angellic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary bout Luis Angel Firpo, from the Argentine, knocked out Jack McAuliffe...
...relatives cried: " Aha, our boy must not marry the child of a waiter, Duc though he be! "-and there were scenes and lalas and all sorts of complications-and everything was about to come out on the front page of The Journal. Till the happy ending arrived, and the angel child joined her parents' hands with " You mus' each be good to ze othaire" and the young millionaire kissed papa on both cheeks and everything was jake...
...rebellious protege, Charlie, and the saving grace of the performance. He is supreme in all business affairs, but, like most great men, he has one weakness--his daughter, Rosie. Her character, as portrayed by Catherine Willard, is a contrast between the self-willed rich girl and the "bloomin' angel" who plays Santa Claus to all her father's down trodden employees...
Jess has some weeks ahead in which to solve the problem. If he fails to fit his ancient frame for a respectable showing, Luis Angel Firpo has been signed to substitute at short notice...
...intrigue and violence. It appeals to snobbery, outraged morality, pity, terror and man's appetite for the human hunt. Thousands of plain people, reading the lurid three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant...